Basil Dearden Movies

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died...

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him...

Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

Propaganda comedy promoting the benefits of saving for the war effort.

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.